How to Change IP address in 30 seconds

Looking for an easy way to become anonymous online and gain unrestricted access to any website? We have the solution! Let’s explore in-depth how to change IP address!

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An IP address is your unique identifier on the web; you can think of it as your digital fingerprint. Governments and internet service providers (ISPs) can track all your online activities and trace them back to you by looking up your IP address. Even your approximate physical location can be looked up by anyone or any website if they know your IP address. In this blog, we’ll tell you how to change IP address in 30 seconds!

Here is a video on how to change IP addresses if you prefer to see it in action!

IP Addresses Explained

IP stands for Internet Protocol, which is a framework governing the activity on the internet. It enables two-way communication by assigning unique numerical internet protocol addresses to each device connected to the world wide grid that we call the Internet.

An IP address consists of two parts: a network ID (think of it as your neighborhood) and your device’s host ID (think of it as your exact street address). Thanks to IP addresses, computers around the world can communicate with one another. They let internet service providers differentiate your device from the billions of others connected to the web.

In essence, the functions of IP addresses are to locate and identify you online, making sure your device can communicate with the sites or content you’d like to access.

Why You Should Change IP Address

While you’re casually browsing the web or interacting on social media, you might not be aware of who is watching you. ISPs can monitor all your online activities – and worse, as we’ve seen with some US internet providers, they may monitor your data for advertising purposes without your consent. As stated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, governments even have a record for using IP addresses as a foundation for legal raids of people’s homes!

Here are a few more reasons why you should change IP address:

Keep Your Details From Nosy GovernmentsGovernments around the world monitor their citizens’ internet usage to track them. Over the past few years, there has been a lot of exposure in the news about how agencies such as American NSA and British GCHQ have been spying on people all over the world.You can prevent online tracking by hiding your IP address restricts a government’s ability to snoop around in your personal information.

Anonymity and PrivacyWith a hidden IP address, your location can’t be tracked, and no one will be able to see what you’ve been up to online – all because they can’t tie any of your activity to you!

Unblock WebsitesWebsites use your IP address to determine your location, allowing them to restrict content if you’re surfing from a country where their services are unavailable. By simply changing your IP address to the country whose content you’d like to access, you can overcome geo-restrictions and stream all movies, shows, sports and music just as if you were there!

Without a VPN, anyone can see your location and your private data is at risk. With a VPN, you can change IP address, and no one can snoop into your data and you can access any geo-restricted website.

Why Not Just Use A Proxy?Many people use proxies to gain access to restricted sites, without realizing that they still have the same IP address and their online activities are still completely traceable. You even give the potentially dishonest proxy operator unrestricted access to all of the information you transmit through their servers! That’s why we recommend a VPN rather than a proxy for safety and anonymity.

Other benefits of using a VPN that we’ve previously discussed on the SaferVPN blog include:

How to Change IP Address with SaferVPN

It’s incredibly easy to change IP address, it just takes a single moment with SaferVPN!

How to change IP addresses: All you need to get started is to register for a free SaferVPN trial, download our app for any device, install it, and you’re ready to go!
Connect to one of our servers. That’s it!

Check out our quick video and see for yourself how to change IP address:

If you’d like to double-check, go to whatismyipaddress.com and see for yourself – try it both before and after changing IP. You’ll see that it notes the change in your location.

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